Ruby on Rails® for Microsoft Developers

8.10. Summary

Routing and controllers are fundamental aspects of every Rails application. This chapter tried to provide an overview of most of the features that are available for you to use.

Parts of this chapter can be viewed as reference-like and are admittedly harder to digest. So don't worry, no one is expecting you walk away remembering every single method or every option in the API. Whenever you need a specialized bit of information, you can always go back to what you read, as well as consult the official API documentation.

In fact, the goal of this chapter, and this book as a whole, is to provide you with a good introduction, show you a few advanced aspects, and give you a good sense of what developing in Rails looks like as well as what the pieces that compose the framework puzzle are, so that you can quickly get started and apply these concepts to your own Rails projects.

Caching and performance testing are covered within Chapter 11, but in the next chapter, you'll finally complete the MVC triad by analyzing the view layer.